diff --git a/redis-faq.markdown b/redis-faq.markdown index cb23d05..637a860 100644 --- a/redis-faq.markdown +++ b/redis-faq.markdown @@ -63,3 +63,10 @@ Yes, Redis' pubsub mechanism is quite good. People get excited about it. But it ## Ok, I understand Pub/Sub, I really want to use it. Does it work with hundred or thousands of subscriptions/clients? The mechanism to subscribe to a channel is quite cheap, consider it an constant-time operation. Publish is more expensive, it needs to send to all subscribed clients. For a much more details info read [the mailing list thread](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/redis-db/R09u__3Jzfk). + +## My Cluster is unavailable when a Master goes down. How to fix? + +If there is no suitable Replica to failover to, the whole Redis Cluster will go into a fail state and won't serve any more queries. +It will become available when all slots are covered again (either by resharding or bringing the old Master back). +You can change this behaviour and always serve queries by setting `cluster-require-full-coverage` to `no`. +See [the default config for more](https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/821a986643717018cad8af9f35cba49818e60294/redis.conf#L747-L758).